It’s summer and time to head for Boston for the annual Enterprise 2.0 Conference. I'm looking forward to catching up with colleagues and getting a perspective of what's evolving.
When I attended in 2007, Andrew McAfee called for real life stories about engagements and implementations. Enterprise 2.0 had been defined but not fully realized.
It’s exciting, then, to see that there are panels and speakers that represent even more engagements as well as the technology advancements at this year’s Enterprise 2.0.
I’m looking forward to panels like Community and Social Network Sites: Think Adoption, Not Deployment, with a panel that includes Genetech, Sabre Holdings, and Harvard University
The Enterprise in Action track has a a real diversity of companies and organizations talking about their own experiences.
One panel of particular interest in this vein is Real World Customer Edition: Stories About Social Computing Deployments. In my own work, I’ve been looking at how social computing can help education system leaders engage in education innovation. Karen Klinzing, Assistant Commissioner for Education for Minnesota is one of the speakers on this panel discussing how social computing tools are being used to promote STEM education (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math).
I’m going to ask some of these panelists not only how they create collaborative work environments internal to their enterprises, but how they use these mechanisms to engage with partners and customers and other key stakeholders. Hopefully, we’ll see a fuller story developing along these lines.
Enterprise 2.0: The Conference, is a place to hear about innovation in solutions and technology, but it’s also a place to hear perspectives as organizations implement the technologies and foster the process of organizational change. From Volvo, to Lockheed Martin, Harvard University, Genetech, and the U.S. Army, this year’s conference looks to be showcasing the practical roadmaps as well as the vision.
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